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UPS changes the delivery game with new intercept service

Posted by | Mar 26, 2007 | |

UPS announced the launch of UPS Delivery Intercept, an automated service that gives customers ultimate flexibility and control by enabling shippers to intercept and reroute packages before they’re delivered.

UPS Delivery Intercept is the industry’s only Web-enabled package interception service. With UPS Delivery Intercept, a shipper simply uses a UPS package application such as UPS WorldShip®, UPS CampusShip® or UPS Internet Shipping®, clicks on the 1Z tracking number and requests a reroute. Interception requests also can be made through a shipper’s myups.com account as well as via UPS Signature Tracking®.

Shippers can access the service 24/7 to request UPS to intercept packages being shipped from and to anywhere in the United States and Puerto Rico.

UPS Delivery Intercept is powered by a UPS innovation known as Package Flow Technology, which enables UPS not only to map more efficient routes for drivers but also to flag packages for special handling while they are in the UPS network. In fact, an interception can even be executed after a package is on board one of UPS’s familiar brown delivery vehicles.

UPS Delivery Intercept is available for all small package deliveries, excluding packages using UPS SonicAir® service. UPS Delivery Intercept costs USD 10 per interception and because of the reliability of the new system, is charged only on completion of the intercept.

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Postcomm guidance on Royal Mail participation in competitive tendering

Posted by | Mar 26, 2007 | |

Postcomm has today published guidance on Royal Mail’s participation in competitive tendering, following a consultation on the subject last year.

Competitive tendering – which was non-existent in the former mail monopoly market – has become accepted practice now the market is fully competitive.

Postcomm does not wish to preclude Royal Mail from winning or retaining business awarded by competitive tenders, but it is important that the market has confidence that it is not acting anti-competitively or taking unfair advantage of its size and dominance of the market to gain business.

Royal Mail’s licence requires it to:

* publish its prices after it has won a contract
* refrain from anti-competitive practices
* offer prices which are within the limits of its 2006/10 price control.

The guidance sets out the detail of these arrangements so that other operators in the market can ensure Royal Mail is complying with its licence.

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CEVA Newsfast wins Logistics contract with John West Foods Ltd

Posted by | Mar 26, 2007 | |

John West Foods Ltd has awarded CEVA Newsfast (formerly TNT Newsfast/Network Logistics) a euro 8.8 million per annum (GBP 6 million) logistics contract.
The long term contract, commencing April 1st, will be based at CEVA’s 755,000 sq ft multi-user centre in Mendlesham, Suffolk, UK with product being delivered through CEVA’s established shared user distribution network to a wide range of wholesalers, supermarket regional distribution centres (RDCs) and food retailers.
John West, the leading brand of canned tuna and fish in the UK, was acquired by Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking along with other leading European seafood brands Petit Navire (France) and Mareblu (Italy) from HJ Heinz in a deal worth euro 425 million, completed in March 2006.
The products, primarily from John West’s own canning factories in the Seychelles, Ghana and Portugal, come into the UK via the Port of Felixstowe where Newsfast already operates an import centre. About 3,500 sea containers a year, an average of fourteen a day, will be handled through Newsfast’s Mendlesham site with the company’s port operation providing additional support during peak periods of activity.

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La Poste focuses strategy

Posted by | Mar 26, 2007 | |

The French post office is adjusting its strategy and will once again concentrate on its core business — carrying letters. It is planning to sell its subsidiary Europe Airpost to South Africa’s Imperial Holdings.

The history of airmail in France started in the pioneering twenties of the last century, with the legendary company Adropostale and pilots such as Mermoz and Saint-Exupéry. But the French post office La Poste does not seem to be particularly interested in this tradition. It is planning to sell its air transport subsidiary Europe Airpost — which was known by the name Aeropostale until the year 2000 — to South Africa’s Imperial Holdings, owner of the airline Safair, this semester. Jean-Paul Bailly, La Poste’s president, explained that the company will focus on transporting letters by rail in future. In this context he pointed out that, together with state.owned rail operator SNCF, La Poste has plans to establish a network of postal TGV trains between France’s major conurbations, with links to the most important centres of trade and industry in neighbouring countries too.

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